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Candidates debate the power process
By MARK VASCHE Ass’t. City Editor
The three candidates for the ASSC presidency sat down yesterday to discuss the election, and if as many people vote as turned out for the debate in Bovard, the winner could poll 30 votes.
When Bill Mauk. Ralph Lippman and Gary Rafferty began their debate over election issues, the crowd numbered 20. It soon swelled to 35 and everyone relaxed a little.
Mauk. running on a slogan of “Power for Progress,” described student power as “the bargaining power with the administration.”
“If we are going to effectively change things on campus, we must go through the proper channels, and this means the administration."
He said that there is no real limit on how much bargaining power the students can hold.
Meanwhile, Lippman said. “One of the most frustrating experiences is sitting with the ASSC Executive Council and talking with Dr. Topping.
He said that there is no real line of communication from students to administration.
This problem cannot be solved with the present setup. The committee work done by the ASSC is, for the most part, of little value.
“What we need to have is a theoretical power structure. Setting this up is no easy task,” Lippman said.
Rafferty said that in order to get a higher level of student involvement, the ASSC must go to the students themselves.
“The implementation of plans can come about only through meaningful contact with the students,” he said.
Rafferty said that it is also incorrect to assume that the administration is oblivious to the wants of the students.
Basically what USC needs is a new approach in student government, he said. The new programs must be taken out to the students.
“If we are to have a powerful voice, then we must show student support.
Rafferty said the student officials can sit around
and organize, but the time will come when organization must stop and contact with the students must start.
Lippman. however, argued that involvement is not the answer to problems in the ASSC.
“The trouble lies within the student government itself,” he said.
“What we need here is the creation of a monumental issue which could draw almost universal student support.”
The candidates turned to the area of student dempn-strations as a means of gaining extended privileges and rights.
“We have to first develop support for the existing programs.” Rafferty said. “I would help organize a student strike only if all other possibilities failed.”
“The threat of demonstration is much more powerful than the demonstration itself,” Mauk said. “Unless the administration feels that the students will demonstrate. then demonstrations won't accomplish anything.”
Earlier Lippman called for the ASSC to turn its attention to more important matters.
“This university has the whole concept of a private school wrong. Students are paying for the faculty and administration, but yet they don’t make any decisions.” he said.
Mauk earlier stated in his platform that the ASSC should include people in its committees who are involved in various activities.
“It is most important that we have people in the ASSC who know the background of student government and are prepared to confront its problems," he said.
He favors establishment of a commission on university government, student leadership conference, a student opinion survey and a program to fill committees with students concerned with the areas under discussion.
Rafferty bases his platform on the need for the student leaders to take their programs to the students.
He favors sponsoring Olympic team receptions, forums on professors in the 21st century, and an American Brotherhood Program.
He also has repeatedly called for an expanded program of USC involvement in the community.
University of Southern California
DAILY # TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1968
72
NO. 38
ASSC campaign: And the
end will come on Monday
Dr. Margaret Mead speaks at Bovard Auditorium
Dr. Mead tells of marriage trends
By ROGER SMITH
Early marriages and early parenthood represent the current trends in marriage and family life. Dr. Margaret Mead told a Bovard Auditorium audience at noon yesterday.
“And we continue to think that everybody needs sex," she said. “We treat it like digestion.”
Dr. Mead, a prominent anthropologist. sociologist, author and educator. spoke on “Changing Trends in Marriage and the Family." The speech was sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
Speaking in her traditional manner. without prepared text or notes. Dr. Mead quickly centered on the population explosion as one of the prime influences on future marriage and family life.
“We knew the population explosion was coming in the mid-1940s.” she said. “But it wasn't until the 1950s that it began to affect the consciences of thinkers in social planning."
Dr. Mead noted that the explosion has a very dangerous potential.
“We’re seeing it already. There are not enough experts, enough trained people to go around even today,” she said.
“The whole world knows that now. for the first time, we have to cut down our birth rate.”
Current trends in the American marriage will soon be reversed as social pressures mount against rising
birth rates.
“This is the first time in history that people don't realize that there is more to marriage than having children.” she said.
Dr. Mead said that the American trend in marriage since the late 1940s has been a specific one of early marriage in the suburbs, then early parenthood and early financial responsibility for the parents and the parents’ parents.
“It is quite possible that it will become fashionable to have small families, just as it was in the 1920s,” she said. “Women then had ‘status’ babies, just to prove that they could.”
STAN METZLER
Editor
To the candidates it seems as important as ever.
But to most campus political observers, this year's ASSC elections, despite their likely effect on university problems, are just about the dullest yet.
The tags are there, especially in red and gold this time around. Posters still crowd the corners and banners guard the Student Union. Major candidates are distributing platforms with every line geared to somebody’s favorite special interest, and just about everyone is pounding the tiled and carpeted floors of campus living groups in search of the vote that will put them over.
But for some reason—perhaps because of the pre-election agreements, perhaps because so many offices are uncontested, perhaps because there is no big political machine-—the campaign seems only to await its end.
That end begins Monday at 10 polling places scattered throughout the campus. It may end on Tuesday. Or maybe it won't end until the runoffs next Thursday and Friday.
By then the course of student government will be set for the next year. Those students offering their services as pilots of that course include:
ASSC VICE-PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS—Dan Brandt, Suzanne DeBall, Jane Lindenthal.
ASSC VICE-PRESIDENT OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES—Matt Pasternak.
SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT—Jeff Smulyan.
SENIOR CLASS REPRESENTATIVE—Ken Walters.
JUNIOR CLASS REPRESENTATIVE — Joe LaTorre, Ron McDuffie (write-in) and Steve Turner.
SOPHOMORE CLASS REPRESENTATIVE—Jay Cohen, Tom Levyn and Peter Salvatori.
AWS PRESIDENT—Penny Scott and Karol Wahlberg.
AWS VICE-PRESIDENT—Donna DeDiemar and Janice Tait.
AMS PRESIDENT—Doug Gallup and Fred Minnes.
AMS VICE-PRESIDENT—Tom Kirby and Andrew C. Miller.
In addition, the student body (those carrying a load of at least six units) will be asked by the ASSC to approve four procedural amendments to the ASSC constitution.
Polling places will be located in front of the School of Engineering, the School of Architecture, between the Schools of Law and Business, in front of the School of Dentistry, the School of Medicine, Bovard Auditorium and at the I-House on the Row.
Each poll will include a table with a list of all students. Voting, on IBM cards, wili be allowed by a check of l.D. cards. The card numbers will be matched later to guard against multiple voting by a single student.
Lippman, Mauk receive last-minute endorsements
A last-minute tally of endorsements for the ASSC presidential race finds the two ASSC vice-presidents and the Daily Trojan Editorial Board behind Bill Mauk, with AMS President John Wardlow and Graduate Representative Jim Marshall backing Ralph Lippman.
Wardlow also endorsed Jane Lindenthal for vice-president of university affairs and Fred Minnes for AMS president. Bob Lutz, this year's university affairs veep, also backed Miss Lindenthal. The board of the Ecumenical Mission has backed Dan Brandt for the same post.
The six-man Daily Trojan Editorial Board, which picked Mauk in a split decision, pointed to Mauk’s experience in government and commitment to broad goals favoring the student body.
“His proposals will streamline student government, will give the students a meaningful share of power and will allow the ASSC to work towards real goals. He will use what has been started this year to build for next year,” Editor Stan Metzler said.
Wardlow referred to Lippman as the candidate “with the potential to make the ASSC something more than a supplement to the Dean of Students Office.”
The Balcony' to start Monday at Stop Gap
Campus entertainment hinges on success of Airplane concerts
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH
Students will be able to cast their votes “aye” or “nay” for future campus entertainment by attending or ignoring tomorrow evening’s Jefferson Airplane concerts at 8 and 10:30.
As of yesterday afternoon the “nays” seemed to have it. A total of 1,200 tickets out of a possible 3,200 have been sold' for both shows.
Whatever the turnout, the ASSC Entertainment Committee has expended approximately $7,000 to bring
the Airplane, the Iron Butterfly and the Headlight Light Show to Bovard Auditorium.
Despite the pessimistic possibility of a large monetary loss the ASSC has gone ahead and signed a contract with Glen Yarborough for a concert next month.
Tickets are still on sale at the YWCA, the Ticket Office (209 Student Union) and in front of Founders Hall. They will also be on sale at the a’oor.
Tickets cost $3 for orchestra seats, $2 for first balcony and SI.50 for general admission (second balcony).
Students with classes in Founders Hall have been aware of the upcoming concert the past couple of days, as witnessed by the displeasure of several teachers competing with the record player at the ticket booth.
One teacher even gave up lecturing, saying, “I can’t compete with that noise out there.”
DARTMOUTH FINAL CHALLENGER
Scholars try for win number 5
By MELINDA TONKS Assistant Nijrlit Editor
Only 23 universities out of more than 300 that have appeared on GE College Bowl have ever won the magic number of games — five.
But this Sunday, the Trojan scholars may make USC the 24th school when they meet Dartmouth College of Hanover, N.H.. in their fifth and final match. The game will air locally at 6 p.m. on Channel 4.
Three of the team members — Richard Hilton, captain, Marcia Hastie and B a r cl a y Edmundson — remained in the East along with Frank Bussone of the Speech Department, who acts as assistant coach.
Gary Cohen, the fourth team member, and Dr. James McBath. professor of speech and coach of the team, will be returning to New York today-
After ^he game on Sunday, the team will be
guests of the university and Dr. Norman Topping, when they will have dinner at ons of New York’s fine restaurants.
On Monday afternoon, the team will come home to a rally which will include the band, cheerleaders, pompon girls and students. They will arrive at 1:45 p.m. on TWA Flight 7 at International Airport.
A further opportunity for students to meet the scholars will be presented at a dinner in Town and Gown Hall on Tuesday evening at 7:30. The ASSC will sponsor the affair.
Dr. Topping will hold a reception honoring the team in his office on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
“After that,1' Dr. McBath said, “they can get back to normal. Also, the Speech Department can return to normal. We’ve been working on this since October.
“I feel that the team has represented the
university very well. And the thought of individual reward did not motivate them.
“They were concerned with what the university will think of them and, consequently, what the country will think of the university,” he said.
Dr. McBath has high hopes for the team’s further success in the game against Dartmouth. If the team is victorious, the university w'ill receive $18,000 worth of scholarships.
“I talked to Bussone on Wednesday and he says the team looks great and they are confident,” Dr. McBath said. “I believe they will be ready, but Dartmouth is an Ivy League school and they are proud of their academic reputation.
“I’m sure they won’t take the game lightly.”
In the East, the three team members and Bussone went to Washington, D.C., where they visited the Library of Congress, the National Gallery, and Congress, where they met California Sens. Thomas Kuchel and George Murphy.
By ROSALIND SILVER
“Any play presented by a student is experimental,” William B. DeMille, founder of the Drama Department, said. And USC drama students involved in the Experimental Theater Workshop have been proving it ever since.
The latest installment of proof, a production of Jean Genet’s * The Balcony,” which starts at Stop Gap Theater Monday at 8:30 p.m. and runs nightly through Saturday, illustrates the workshop’s two-fold purpose.
William White, assistant professor of drama who is in charge of publicity for the department, said the group as a producing unit of Drama 495 and 496 classes gives the students a chance to experiment with different forms of drama.
The theater is also experimental in the sense that new things in the theater have been tried. “The Balcony.” Genet’s interpretation of a theater of cruelty, succeeds productions that range from Greek drama to musical revue.
Every production is handled by 3tudents from the choosing of plays to the running at the box office. John Blankenchip. professor of drama, serves as adviser and coordinator, but the students run the show.
One to two weeks are spent reading nlays and a vote is taken.
The sponsor of the chosen play is usually selected as the director, and he chooses the cast from the competitors in the readings that follow in the next few days. The cast list is posted on the door of Stop Gap Theater and line memorization and rehearsals start.
The whole process is one of total involvement on the part of the students. Jeanie Nolan, in charge of publicity for “The Balcony,” said production starts inside the class, but as pro-duction nears the deadline, it involves more of the student’s time.
Rehearsals sometimes last until 1 a.m. Even men sew their own costumes. “Sometimes they’re better at it than the girls,” Miss Nolan said.
“The Balcony” presents peculiar production problems. Genet saw it as a ceremony, harking back to the Catholic mass and primitive sacrifice. Madame Irnva, played by Vickie Rue,
runs “The Grand Balcony” as a hall of mirrors and a palace of illusions where men can indulge in their secret dreams.
The theater of this fantasy world is set against the background of a revolution which puts the church, state and law on the block.
Involved with Madame Irma are Karen Smith as Carmen, Tony Christianson as the chief of police, and Terry Collier as Roger.
Wyatt hits
at LBJ in TYR talk
G
President Johnson’s claim that he is following the Vietnam policies of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy is “pure garbage," Rep. Wendell Wyatt (R-Oregon) said yesterday.
Speaking before the Trojan Young Republicans, Wyatt said, “You can't believe Johnson anymore today than you could in 1961 when he said no American boys would be sent to Vietnam to fight an Asian war. It was Johnson that made Vietnam into a land war.”
He called the draft program “extremely inequitable” and urged a program which would draft 19-year-olds across the board.
Commenting on the report of the President's Riot Commission, Wyatt said it was stacked with people who wanted to throw federal money at the problems, and the conclusions represent wholesale irresponsibility, and did not make much of a contribution.
The urban crisis will not be solved by throwing federal money at it, Wyatt said. The federal government has a responsibility to provide leadership to get all segments of government and society involved in solving the problem.
Speaking on the Oregon presidential primary, Wyatt said that Nixon will win big and will carry the state against LBJ.

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Candidates debate the power process
By MARK VASCHE Ass’t. City Editor
The three candidates for the ASSC presidency sat down yesterday to discuss the election, and if as many people vote as turned out for the debate in Bovard, the winner could poll 30 votes.
When Bill Mauk. Ralph Lippman and Gary Rafferty began their debate over election issues, the crowd numbered 20. It soon swelled to 35 and everyone relaxed a little.
Mauk. running on a slogan of “Power for Progress,” described student power as “the bargaining power with the administration.”
“If we are going to effectively change things on campus, we must go through the proper channels, and this means the administration."
He said that there is no real limit on how much bargaining power the students can hold.
Meanwhile, Lippman said. “One of the most frustrating experiences is sitting with the ASSC Executive Council and talking with Dr. Topping.
He said that there is no real line of communication from students to administration.
This problem cannot be solved with the present setup. The committee work done by the ASSC is, for the most part, of little value.
“What we need to have is a theoretical power structure. Setting this up is no easy task,” Lippman said.
Rafferty said that in order to get a higher level of student involvement, the ASSC must go to the students themselves.
“The implementation of plans can come about only through meaningful contact with the students,” he said.
Rafferty said that it is also incorrect to assume that the administration is oblivious to the wants of the students.
Basically what USC needs is a new approach in student government, he said. The new programs must be taken out to the students.
“If we are to have a powerful voice, then we must show student support.
Rafferty said the student officials can sit around
and organize, but the time will come when organization must stop and contact with the students must start.
Lippman. however, argued that involvement is not the answer to problems in the ASSC.
“The trouble lies within the student government itself,” he said.
“What we need here is the creation of a monumental issue which could draw almost universal student support.”
The candidates turned to the area of student dempn-strations as a means of gaining extended privileges and rights.
“We have to first develop support for the existing programs.” Rafferty said. “I would help organize a student strike only if all other possibilities failed.”
“The threat of demonstration is much more powerful than the demonstration itself,” Mauk said. “Unless the administration feels that the students will demonstrate. then demonstrations won't accomplish anything.”
Earlier Lippman called for the ASSC to turn its attention to more important matters.
“This university has the whole concept of a private school wrong. Students are paying for the faculty and administration, but yet they don’t make any decisions.” he said.
Mauk earlier stated in his platform that the ASSC should include people in its committees who are involved in various activities.
“It is most important that we have people in the ASSC who know the background of student government and are prepared to confront its problems," he said.
He favors establishment of a commission on university government, student leadership conference, a student opinion survey and a program to fill committees with students concerned with the areas under discussion.
Rafferty bases his platform on the need for the student leaders to take their programs to the students.
He favors sponsoring Olympic team receptions, forums on professors in the 21st century, and an American Brotherhood Program.
He also has repeatedly called for an expanded program of USC involvement in the community.
University of Southern California
DAILY # TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1968
72
NO. 38
ASSC campaign: And the
end will come on Monday
Dr. Margaret Mead speaks at Bovard Auditorium
Dr. Mead tells of marriage trends
By ROGER SMITH
Early marriages and early parenthood represent the current trends in marriage and family life. Dr. Margaret Mead told a Bovard Auditorium audience at noon yesterday.
“And we continue to think that everybody needs sex," she said. “We treat it like digestion.”
Dr. Mead, a prominent anthropologist. sociologist, author and educator. spoke on “Changing Trends in Marriage and the Family." The speech was sponsored by the Great Issues Forum.
Speaking in her traditional manner. without prepared text or notes. Dr. Mead quickly centered on the population explosion as one of the prime influences on future marriage and family life.
“We knew the population explosion was coming in the mid-1940s.” she said. “But it wasn't until the 1950s that it began to affect the consciences of thinkers in social planning."
Dr. Mead noted that the explosion has a very dangerous potential.
“We’re seeing it already. There are not enough experts, enough trained people to go around even today,” she said.
“The whole world knows that now. for the first time, we have to cut down our birth rate.”
Current trends in the American marriage will soon be reversed as social pressures mount against rising
birth rates.
“This is the first time in history that people don't realize that there is more to marriage than having children.” she said.
Dr. Mead said that the American trend in marriage since the late 1940s has been a specific one of early marriage in the suburbs, then early parenthood and early financial responsibility for the parents and the parents’ parents.
“It is quite possible that it will become fashionable to have small families, just as it was in the 1920s,” she said. “Women then had ‘status’ babies, just to prove that they could.”
STAN METZLER
Editor
To the candidates it seems as important as ever.
But to most campus political observers, this year's ASSC elections, despite their likely effect on university problems, are just about the dullest yet.
The tags are there, especially in red and gold this time around. Posters still crowd the corners and banners guard the Student Union. Major candidates are distributing platforms with every line geared to somebody’s favorite special interest, and just about everyone is pounding the tiled and carpeted floors of campus living groups in search of the vote that will put them over.
But for some reason—perhaps because of the pre-election agreements, perhaps because so many offices are uncontested, perhaps because there is no big political machine-—the campaign seems only to await its end.
That end begins Monday at 10 polling places scattered throughout the campus. It may end on Tuesday. Or maybe it won't end until the runoffs next Thursday and Friday.
By then the course of student government will be set for the next year. Those students offering their services as pilots of that course include:
ASSC VICE-PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS—Dan Brandt, Suzanne DeBall, Jane Lindenthal.
ASSC VICE-PRESIDENT OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES—Matt Pasternak.
SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT—Jeff Smulyan.
SENIOR CLASS REPRESENTATIVE—Ken Walters.
JUNIOR CLASS REPRESENTATIVE — Joe LaTorre, Ron McDuffie (write-in) and Steve Turner.
SOPHOMORE CLASS REPRESENTATIVE—Jay Cohen, Tom Levyn and Peter Salvatori.
AWS PRESIDENT—Penny Scott and Karol Wahlberg.
AWS VICE-PRESIDENT—Donna DeDiemar and Janice Tait.
AMS PRESIDENT—Doug Gallup and Fred Minnes.
AMS VICE-PRESIDENT—Tom Kirby and Andrew C. Miller.
In addition, the student body (those carrying a load of at least six units) will be asked by the ASSC to approve four procedural amendments to the ASSC constitution.
Polling places will be located in front of the School of Engineering, the School of Architecture, between the Schools of Law and Business, in front of the School of Dentistry, the School of Medicine, Bovard Auditorium and at the I-House on the Row.
Each poll will include a table with a list of all students. Voting, on IBM cards, wili be allowed by a check of l.D. cards. The card numbers will be matched later to guard against multiple voting by a single student.
Lippman, Mauk receive last-minute endorsements
A last-minute tally of endorsements for the ASSC presidential race finds the two ASSC vice-presidents and the Daily Trojan Editorial Board behind Bill Mauk, with AMS President John Wardlow and Graduate Representative Jim Marshall backing Ralph Lippman.
Wardlow also endorsed Jane Lindenthal for vice-president of university affairs and Fred Minnes for AMS president. Bob Lutz, this year's university affairs veep, also backed Miss Lindenthal. The board of the Ecumenical Mission has backed Dan Brandt for the same post.
The six-man Daily Trojan Editorial Board, which picked Mauk in a split decision, pointed to Mauk’s experience in government and commitment to broad goals favoring the student body.
“His proposals will streamline student government, will give the students a meaningful share of power and will allow the ASSC to work towards real goals. He will use what has been started this year to build for next year,” Editor Stan Metzler said.
Wardlow referred to Lippman as the candidate “with the potential to make the ASSC something more than a supplement to the Dean of Students Office.”
The Balcony' to start Monday at Stop Gap
Campus entertainment hinges on success of Airplane concerts
By ELLIOT ZWIEBACH
Students will be able to cast their votes “aye” or “nay” for future campus entertainment by attending or ignoring tomorrow evening’s Jefferson Airplane concerts at 8 and 10:30.
As of yesterday afternoon the “nays” seemed to have it. A total of 1,200 tickets out of a possible 3,200 have been sold' for both shows.
Whatever the turnout, the ASSC Entertainment Committee has expended approximately $7,000 to bring
the Airplane, the Iron Butterfly and the Headlight Light Show to Bovard Auditorium.
Despite the pessimistic possibility of a large monetary loss the ASSC has gone ahead and signed a contract with Glen Yarborough for a concert next month.
Tickets are still on sale at the YWCA, the Ticket Office (209 Student Union) and in front of Founders Hall. They will also be on sale at the a’oor.
Tickets cost $3 for orchestra seats, $2 for first balcony and SI.50 for general admission (second balcony).
Students with classes in Founders Hall have been aware of the upcoming concert the past couple of days, as witnessed by the displeasure of several teachers competing with the record player at the ticket booth.
One teacher even gave up lecturing, saying, “I can’t compete with that noise out there.”
DARTMOUTH FINAL CHALLENGER
Scholars try for win number 5
By MELINDA TONKS Assistant Nijrlit Editor
Only 23 universities out of more than 300 that have appeared on GE College Bowl have ever won the magic number of games — five.
But this Sunday, the Trojan scholars may make USC the 24th school when they meet Dartmouth College of Hanover, N.H.. in their fifth and final match. The game will air locally at 6 p.m. on Channel 4.
Three of the team members — Richard Hilton, captain, Marcia Hastie and B a r cl a y Edmundson — remained in the East along with Frank Bussone of the Speech Department, who acts as assistant coach.
Gary Cohen, the fourth team member, and Dr. James McBath. professor of speech and coach of the team, will be returning to New York today-
After ^he game on Sunday, the team will be
guests of the university and Dr. Norman Topping, when they will have dinner at ons of New York’s fine restaurants.
On Monday afternoon, the team will come home to a rally which will include the band, cheerleaders, pompon girls and students. They will arrive at 1:45 p.m. on TWA Flight 7 at International Airport.
A further opportunity for students to meet the scholars will be presented at a dinner in Town and Gown Hall on Tuesday evening at 7:30. The ASSC will sponsor the affair.
Dr. Topping will hold a reception honoring the team in his office on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
“After that,1' Dr. McBath said, “they can get back to normal. Also, the Speech Department can return to normal. We’ve been working on this since October.
“I feel that the team has represented the
university very well. And the thought of individual reward did not motivate them.
“They were concerned with what the university will think of them and, consequently, what the country will think of the university,” he said.
Dr. McBath has high hopes for the team’s further success in the game against Dartmouth. If the team is victorious, the university w'ill receive $18,000 worth of scholarships.
“I talked to Bussone on Wednesday and he says the team looks great and they are confident,” Dr. McBath said. “I believe they will be ready, but Dartmouth is an Ivy League school and they are proud of their academic reputation.
“I’m sure they won’t take the game lightly.”
In the East, the three team members and Bussone went to Washington, D.C., where they visited the Library of Congress, the National Gallery, and Congress, where they met California Sens. Thomas Kuchel and George Murphy.
By ROSALIND SILVER
“Any play presented by a student is experimental,” William B. DeMille, founder of the Drama Department, said. And USC drama students involved in the Experimental Theater Workshop have been proving it ever since.
The latest installment of proof, a production of Jean Genet’s * The Balcony,” which starts at Stop Gap Theater Monday at 8:30 p.m. and runs nightly through Saturday, illustrates the workshop’s two-fold purpose.
William White, assistant professor of drama who is in charge of publicity for the department, said the group as a producing unit of Drama 495 and 496 classes gives the students a chance to experiment with different forms of drama.
The theater is also experimental in the sense that new things in the theater have been tried. “The Balcony.” Genet’s interpretation of a theater of cruelty, succeeds productions that range from Greek drama to musical revue.
Every production is handled by 3tudents from the choosing of plays to the running at the box office. John Blankenchip. professor of drama, serves as adviser and coordinator, but the students run the show.
One to two weeks are spent reading nlays and a vote is taken.
The sponsor of the chosen play is usually selected as the director, and he chooses the cast from the competitors in the readings that follow in the next few days. The cast list is posted on the door of Stop Gap Theater and line memorization and rehearsals start.
The whole process is one of total involvement on the part of the students. Jeanie Nolan, in charge of publicity for “The Balcony,” said production starts inside the class, but as pro-duction nears the deadline, it involves more of the student’s time.
Rehearsals sometimes last until 1 a.m. Even men sew their own costumes. “Sometimes they’re better at it than the girls,” Miss Nolan said.
“The Balcony” presents peculiar production problems. Genet saw it as a ceremony, harking back to the Catholic mass and primitive sacrifice. Madame Irnva, played by Vickie Rue,
runs “The Grand Balcony” as a hall of mirrors and a palace of illusions where men can indulge in their secret dreams.
The theater of this fantasy world is set against the background of a revolution which puts the church, state and law on the block.
Involved with Madame Irma are Karen Smith as Carmen, Tony Christianson as the chief of police, and Terry Collier as Roger.
Wyatt hits
at LBJ in TYR talk
G
President Johnson’s claim that he is following the Vietnam policies of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy is “pure garbage," Rep. Wendell Wyatt (R-Oregon) said yesterday.
Speaking before the Trojan Young Republicans, Wyatt said, “You can't believe Johnson anymore today than you could in 1961 when he said no American boys would be sent to Vietnam to fight an Asian war. It was Johnson that made Vietnam into a land war.”
He called the draft program “extremely inequitable” and urged a program which would draft 19-year-olds across the board.
Commenting on the report of the President's Riot Commission, Wyatt said it was stacked with people who wanted to throw federal money at the problems, and the conclusions represent wholesale irresponsibility, and did not make much of a contribution.
The urban crisis will not be solved by throwing federal money at it, Wyatt said. The federal government has a responsibility to provide leadership to get all segments of government and society involved in solving the problem.
Speaking on the Oregon presidential primary, Wyatt said that Nixon will win big and will carry the state against LBJ.